Wurzeln - Auf den Spuren Großer Komponisten der Region

IDEA AND CONCEPT: RAFAEL FINGERLOS AND FRANZ WELSER-MÖST

IDEA AND CONCEPT: RAFAEL FINGERLOS AND FRANZ WELSER-MÖST Following the two successful programmes FRANZ and JOHANNES, which were dedicated to the great composers Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms, the artists Rafael Fingerlos and Sascha El Mouissi, one of the most exciting international song duos of their generation, and the Upper Austrian, Upper Austrian folk music ensemble Tschejefem set off in search of traces of the region's successful composers. Together they create an exciting evening that is guided by the idea of building musical bridges across genre divides and making the connection between folk music and art music tangible. With the aim of bringing folk and art songs, in some cases newly arranged and adapted, to where they belong, directly into people's hearts. The result is a highly musical and deeply moving evening full of emotion, which seeks to find what unites the different styles. At the highest artistic level, they have succeeded in creating an extraordinary evening with well-known melodies in sometimes surprising arrangements. A production of the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden "A highlight of my year" - Franz Welser-Möst